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...what they call their "Liberty Law." They felt that the time was ripe to present it to the German people for ratification by referendum. It provides: 1) "That the German Government take formal action toward the repeal of Articles 231 [confession of War guilt], 429, 430 [occupation of the Rhine] of the Versailles Treaty." 2) "That the German Government shall undertake no new burdens or reparations obligations." (i.e. Down with the Young Plan.) 3) "That the German Government shall assign specific punishment by penal servitude for any official of the Reich who fails to carry out the provisions...
...absence of James Ramsay MacDonald at Geneva (see The League), forthright Chancellor Snowden voiced his pride frankly to correspondents: "We succeeded in all the essential points of our claims. . . . The influence of Great Britain in international affairs has been reestablished. . . . The arrangement for withdrawal of foreign troops from the Rhine is the greatest political achievement since Locarno...
...Watch on the Rhine Must End!" We welcome the announcement that the withdrawal of the British troops is likely to begin next month...
...Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Wartime commander of Germany's Navy, until 1916. The little mountain inn at Feldafing, Bavaria, on the shores of the Wurm See was crowded with Prussian Generals and Bavarian Princes. Perspiring waiters, imported from Munich, rushed to and from the kitchen bearing caviar, Rhine salmon, venison−in all 50 mountainous courses of food for the distinguished guests...
Clearly the Iron Man from across the Rhine was addressing himself, last week, chiefly to the men from across the Atlantic, and especially to one of them whose strong fist is invariably mantled in a metaphorical Velvet Glove-John Pierpont Morgan...